The NaMo Administration on 29 Sept appointed BJP's national spokesperson Sambit Patra as the non-official director on the board of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC) for a period of 03 years. It may be noted that Ms Ganga Murthy was 05 September appointed Non Official Independent Director on the Board of ONGC. It may well be noted that other BJP leaders have also been appointed to the board of central public sector undertakings. In the month of May this year BJP leader Syed Zafar Islam, a former investment banker who joined the BJP on April 5, 2014, was appointed as non-official independent director of Air India. Shazia Ilmi, former AAP leader too was appointed as an independent director in Engineers India Ltd (EIL) in January this year. Currently Ilmi is the vice-president of the BJP Delhi unit. BJP leader Asifa Khan, had also been made the non-official independent director of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL). Existing SEBI guidelines say that companies to have at least fifty per cent of directors as non-executive or independent directors with at least one woman director.